Chuck Close Figurative Prints
American, 1940-2021
Chuck Close was renowned for his highly inventive techniques of painting the human face and was best known for his large-scale, photo-based portrait paintings.
After earning his MFA from Yale in 1964, Close took his place atop the American art world by creating large-scale, Photorealistic portraits that have creatively blurred the distinction between photography and painting. In 1988, Close was paralyzed following a rare spinal artery collapse; despite the physical limitations, the artist pressed forward with his work. With a brush taped to his wrist, he continued to paint.
In 2000, Close was presented with the prestigious National Medal of Arts by President Clinton and was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
"Yes, it is hard to paint blur," Close said. "There are some works I made by using a grid of string to help me perceive changes in depth of focus — something artists have done for centuries. The depth of field in the daguerreotypes is a function of the process of making an image that way, with a very short, very bright flash of light."
Although Close had employed various painterly styles throughout his career, he is perhaps best known for his grid set on the diagonal. Close’s paintings are all-over images where the background of the picture – the negative space – is as important as the face itself, and one cannot exist without the other.
Close often took his family and friends as models, making monumental and classical works that are bold in their simplicity. His work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions in more than 20 countries, including major retrospective exhibitions at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia de Madrid and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
(Biography provided by Weng Contemporary – ArtXX AG)
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Artist: Chuck Close
Process and Collaboration Met Museum poster (Hand Signed & dated by Chuck Close)
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
Chuck Close
Process and Collaboration (Hand Signed by Chuck Close), 2004
Offset Lithograph poster (Hand Signed & dated by Chuck Close in 2014)
Boldly hand signed and dated by artist ...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Chuck Close Figurative Prints
Materials
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
Phil Limited Edition rubber stamp Portrait of Philip Glass, pencil no. 243/1000
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
Chuck Close
Phil, 1976
Limited Edition Print on Strathmore 3-Ply Paper.
Pencil numbered 243/1000 on the verso. Artist's printed copyright name verso.
Accompanied by original envelope...
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1970s Realist Chuck Close Figurative Prints
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Untitled (Sunflower), Chuck Close, Pigment print, Limited editions
By Chuck Close
Located in Zug, CH
Chuck Close
Untitled (Sunflower), 2011
Pigment Print
Edition of 60
52 x 39 cm (20.4 x 15.3 in)
Signed, numbered and dated in pencil on the front
Accompanied by Certificate of Authen...
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2010s Contemporary Chuck Close Figurative Prints
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The 57th Presidential Inauguration, limited edition, plate signed Barack Obama
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
Chuck Close
The 57th Presidential Inauguration, 2013
Offset lithograph
23 1/2 × 18 inches
Edition 1191/2013
Bears Chuck Close's printed name; plate signed by Barack Obama numbered 11...
Category
2010s Pop Art Chuck Close Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph
Self Portrait by Chuck Close
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
Self Portrait, 2007
9 color screen print on Somerset Satin paper
38 x 30 inches
Edition of 118
Printed at Watanabe Press
Publisher: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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Uniquely Signed, dedicated and inscribed vintage card of Linda Rosenkrantz Finch
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
Chuck Close
Uniquely Signed, dedicated and inscribed vintage card, 1988
Thick card
Boldly signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed in black ink on the front...
Category
1980s Pop Art Chuck Close Figurative Prints
Materials
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Phil (Limited Edition Portrait of Philip Glass, uniquely signed by Chuck Close)
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
Chuck Close
Phil (Uniquely Signed by Chuck Close), 1976
(the regular limited edition was unsigned; this one is, exceptionally, signed by the artist)
Print on Strathmore 3-Ply Paper, ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Chuck Close Figurative Prints
Materials
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Untitled (Sunflower), Chuck Close, Pigment print, Limited editions
By Chuck Close
Located in Zug, CH
Chuck Close
Untitled (Sunflower), 2011
Pigment Print
Edition of 60
52 x 39 cm (20.4 x 15.3 in)
Signed, numbered and dated in pencil on the front
Accompanied by Certificate of Authen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Chuck Close Figurative Prints
Materials
Pigment
Untitled from Doctors of the World Portfolio, hand signed & numbered Pop realism
By Chuck Close
Located in New York, NY
Chuck Close
Untitled Daguerreotypes, 2001
Two (2) pigmented digital output iris prints from daguerroeotype printed in a single sheet of wove paper
22 × 29 1/4 inches
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered on the front from the edition of 100
Unframed
The present work is a pencil signed and numbered daguerreotype that is part of the 2001 “Doctors of the World” series. Close has said “I’m not interested in daguerreotypes because it’s an antiquarian process, I like them because from my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840… Photographs are often so big now that twenty or thirty people can view one at the same time, but a daguerreotype is the most intimate image made with a camera, because it is small and only one person can look at it.”
Printer: Universal Limited Art Editions, East Islip, New York / ULAE & Brand X Editions
Publisher: Doctors of the World / Art of this Century, NY
Literature: "The Art of Healing" which catalogues the works from the portfolio. Chuck Close Prints...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Chuck Close Figurative Prints
Materials
Pigment, Lithograph, Pencil
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- Where did Chuck Close live?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMay 3, 2024Chuck Close lived in a few places. He was born in Monroe, Washington, in 1940 and grew up in the area. Close attended Everett Community College in Everett, Washington, and received his bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in Seattle. Then, he relocated to Connecticut to pursue a master's degree from Yale University. His studies would also prompt him to move to Vienna, Austria, to take courses at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After graduation, Close settled in the Amherst, Massachusetts, area while working at the University of Massachusetts. In 1967, he moved again to New York City, New York, to establish his own studio in Soho. Close died in 2021 in Oceanside, New York. Explore a variety of Chuck Close art on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Chuck Close is most well-known for doing paintings, but he also worked as a photographer. The American artist is most famous for creating huge portraits of himself in both abstract and photorealistic styles. Find a collection of Chuck Close art on 1stDibs.